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Now the word of the LORD came to ^(C1)Jehu the son of ^(C2)Hanani against Baasha, saying,

"Since I ^(C1)exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and ^(C2)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have misled My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

behold, ^(C1)I am going to ^(F1)burn ^(C2)Baasha and his house, and ^(C3)I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

"^(C1)Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and anyone belonging to him who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat."

^(C1)Now as for the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

And Baasha ^(F1)lay down with his fathers and was buried in ^(C1)Tirzah, and his son Elah became king in his place.

Moreover, the word of the LORD through ^(C1)the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with ^(C2)the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam, and because ^(C3)he struck ^(F1)it.

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned for two years.

And his servant ^(C1)Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now ^(F1)Elah was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, ^(C2)who was in charge of the household in Tirzah.

Then Zimri came in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he became king in his place.

And when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, ^(C1)he ^(F1)killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave ^(F2)a single male alive, either of his ^(F3)relatives or of his friends.

So Zimri eliminated all the household of Baasha, ^(C1)in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke against Baasha through ^(C2)Jehu the prophet,

for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they ^(F1)committed and into which they misled Israel, ^(C1)provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their ^(F2)idols.

^(C1)Now as for the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were camped against ^(C1)Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

And the people who were camped heard ^(F1)it being said, "Zimri has conspired and has also struck and killed the king!" Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over himself with fire, and ^(C1)died,

because of his sins which he ^(F1)committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, ^(C1)walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he committed, misleading Israel into sin.

^(C1)Now as for the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he ^(F1)carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?